Resource: Chess Wager
Media Type:
QuickTime Video
Length:
Size: 9.5 MB
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Harry plays a game of chess with a young friend and suggests a wager on the game. Harry’s friend uses a story to explain how putting a penny on the first square and then doubling the amount on each square of the chessboard can generate a tremendous amount of money over time.
Teachers' Domain, Chess Wager, published August 22, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.math.number.exp.chesswager/
- Frame and Focus
- Follow Up
- Connections
- Standards
Print Frame and FocusHere are some suggestions for using this video:
Frame: How do you double an amount? For example if you have five pennies, how much would you have if you doubled that amount? How about if you doubled it again? What do you think would happen if you kept doubling that amount, say four or five times? How about twenty times? What mathematical operation are you using?
Focus: As you watch the video segment, think about how the penny amounts increase on the chessboard as the doubling occurs. Which wager would pay out more money, the five dollar wager or the doubling pennies?
We assign reference terms to each statement within a standards document and to each media resource, and correlations are based upon matches of these terms for a given grade band. If a particular standards document of interest to you is not displayed yet, it most likely has not yet been processed by ASN or by Teachers' Domain.
Loading StandardsPlease answer this survey question:
Thank you!
Your response has been received. Thanks for helping improve Teachers' Domain!
Related Resources:
Lily Pad Escape
(QuickTime Video)
See Also:
K-12 Subject:
Exponential Growth
Lesson Plans Using this Resource:
Source: Cyberchase: “Double Trouble”
Resource Produced by:
Collection Developed by:
Collection Funded by:
Funding for the VITAL/Ready to Teach collection was secured through the United States Department of Education under the Ready to Teach Program.